Exercise $13-35($Algo$)$ Estimate Purchases and Cash Disbursements $($LO $13-3,4)$

Dawes Designs buys T$-$shirts for clubs, teams, and other organizations. Dawes takes the shirts and adds the organization's logo$.$

Because of the uncertainty in the timing of the sales and to avoid stock outages, Dawes tries to maintain an inventory of shirts equal to

two$-$month's of sales. The shirts cost $$21\mathrm{.}50$ each and must be paid for in cash. On June $30$ of the current year, the company expects

to have $17,100$ shirts in stock. Sales estimates, based on contracts received and historical data, are as follows for the next six months:

Required:

a$.$ & b$.$ Estimate purchases $($in units$)$ and cash required to make purchases in July, August, and September.